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Show MORE FEDERAL , i .House Committee Adopts' Amendment Changes Basis of Apportionment WASHINGTON. Doc 1 S Thfc house ' committee sub-committee on roads has, agreed to report favorably the McAr-thur McAr-thur bill, authorizing an appropriation of $100,000,000 during the next four years for co-opcratlvo road construction, construc-tion, the idea being to oxpend $100.-' 000,000 a year for the next four years, thus continuing the present co- ( operative public road construction. j On the recommendation of Secretary Secre-tary Meredith, tho committee has adopted an amendment changing tho basis on which tho public land states shall co-operate In raising funds. Under Un-der the now basis a western state will recolvo larger allotments than It has' been gotting under tho old law. the! committee having taken into consider-1 atlon tho fact that a great perccntngo of the area of these, states Is now tied up In government reservations, and,, therofore, not taxable. Under thoold plan the state con-' trlbutcd 50 per cent and tho federal I government 50 percent, and that basis' will be continued in tho east and mid-' die west In the public land states, however, a larger proportion will here-' after bo contributed b'y the federal governmont, becauso of Its largo own- ershlp of land within those states and ! bocauso the states on account of thesp1 j reservations, are handicapped in the matter of taxes. Tho new plan means that Utah will contribute 10.7 per cent and the federal feder-al governmont 30.3 per cent of the total amount to be expended on Utah roads, and tho percentage In other states will be worked out In this same way, bolng governed largely by the umount of federal owned ami nontaxable non-taxable land in the stale. , Ira R. Browning, state road engineer of Utah, who has been here attending the conforenco of public road officials, appeared with others before tho committee com-mittee on roads in support of the $100,000,000 bill, and particularly in advocacy of the amendment affecting tho allotments to western states. He left for homo tonight, satisfied that a now policy would bo accepted by this 'congress, but apprehensive that the I committee on appropriations may i amend the pending bill by cutting down the maximum appropriation to $200,000,000 and extending it over a period of two years only, so that by the end of that time a new roads policy pol-icy may be formulated. One object, ho stated, in getting a continuation of the public highway appropriation ap-propriation was to enable the 's-tate I legislature which meets next month to .enact necessary laws providing for co-1 co-1 operation with the federal Koi-rnment 1 oo |